Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

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Seite 19Despite our recently developed communications intimacy and popular
awareness of total Earth we, too, in 1969 are as yet politically organized entirely
in the terms of exclusive and utterly obsolete sovereign separateness. This "
sovereign" ...

Seite 45This contradiction occurred at the beginning of World War II, when extraordinary
new scientific instruments had been developed and the biologists and chemists
and physicists were meeting in Washington, D. C, on special war missions.

Seite 73... the synergetic means of ascertaining the values of any system of experiences.
Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of
event constellations. It was discovered and developed by the mathematician
Euler.

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Nutzerbericht - Marse - LibraryThing

The name R. Buckminster Fuller brings up images of geodesic domes for most people. I found a paperback 1973 printing of the 1969 book with a properly psychedelic deconstructed sphere/face on the cover ...Vollständige Rezension lesen

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Nutzerbericht - Paulagraph - LibraryThing

This is a classic, published in 1969, first read by me back in 1970 or 1971, when we thought we would soon experience either the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius or, alternately, the Eve of Destruction ...Vollständige Rezension lesen

Über den Autor (1969)

Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller, the innovative thinker, engineer, and inventor, was born July 12, 1895 in Milton, Massachusetts. Despite early failures and tragedies, including his being expelled from Harvard University twice and the death of his four-year-old daughter, Fuller went on to achieve many successes. He is best known for inventing the geodesic dome; his design has been used in structures all over the world. Besides Harvard, Fuller also attended the U.S. Naval Academy, and was a professor at Southern Illinois University. He is the author of Synergetics: Explanations in the Geometry of Thinking, a book that discusses the utopic role technology will play in the future. Critical Path is the book Fuller felt was his most important. It outlined his plan to rejuvenate earth through the use of technology. His last book, Grunch of Giants, summarizes his most important ideas. Fuller was awarded 28 United States patents and many honorary doctorates. In 1968 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member. In 1970 he received the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects. He also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom presented to him on February 23, 1983 by President Ronald Reagan.